There’s a lot of discussion out there right now circulating around cloud computing. We share Jake Sorofman’s point of view:

“Personally, I believe that cloud will change everything-it just happens to be very early days, and this trend is still awkwardly finding its voice and its legs.”

As strongly as we stand behind cloud technologies, we just as firmly believe in the importance of open discussion and exploration – because it is this discussion that will lead to the cloud’s evolution. Our friends at rPath have invited us to join a high-profile online panel discussion, “State of the Cloud,” that explores what’s real and what’s not in the cloud today, closely examining the realities of today and the promises of tomorrow.
To help set the scene for an interactive discussion led by James Staten of Forrester Research, two customer case studies will be presented. Klemens Wengert of interactive marketing firm, White Knight LLC, will share his experience using Cloud Sites from Mosso to host the 99CentBidforValue campaign for Wendy’s International. A representative from the US Department of Defense Argonne National Lab will also contribute a case study.

Augmenting this conversation will be the influential voices of our very own Lew Moorman, CSO of Rackspace, as well as Michael Crandell, CEO of Rightscale, Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix, and Erik Troan CTO of rPath.
The online event occurs Thursday, March 26th at 2 PM ET. It’s free-of-charge, open to the public, and, “promises to be one of the definitive discussions on where we are with this whole cloud thing – what’s real and what’s not” in the words of Jake Sorofman, VP of Marketing, rPath.

Where do you stand? What are your questions and what do you feel strongly about?

About the Author

This is a post written and contributed by
Angela Bartels.

Angela runs integrated marketing campaigns for Rackspace. She started at Rackspace in 2003 and has done everything from Linux support, account management, sales, product marketing and now lives in marketing. She left Rackspace in 2005 to work for PEER 1 Hosting but returned in 2009 because she was interested in the cloud computing movement (and has always been a Racker at heart). Angela is a strong believer in the power of storytelling.